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sphery, a.|ˈsfɪərɪ|
Also 6 spherie, 7 spheary, 9 spherey.
[f. sphere n.]
1. Of or pertaining to, connected with, the spheres or heavenly bodies; sphere-like.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. ii. 99 What wicked and dissembling glasse of mine, Made me compare with Hermias sphery eyne? 1634Milton Comus 1021 Love vertue,..She can teach ye how to clime Higher than the Spheary chime. 1816Keats Ep. to Bro. George 4 In seasons when I've thought No spherey strains by me could e'er be caught From the blue dome. 1818― Endym. iii. 33 A thousand Powers..Hold sphery sessions for a season due. 1867J. Ingelow Christ's Resurr. xxii, Hurrying down the sphery way Night flies. 1882Symonds Animi Figura 121 Discord that jars upon the sphery tune.
2. Having the form of a sphere. Also Comb.
1600Lane Tom Tel-troth 183 Astronomie..hath lost By cruell fate her starre-embroidred coate; Her spherie globe in dangers seas is tost, And in mishap her instruments doe floate. 1871B. Taylor Faust iii. (1886) 274 This way, ye gloomy, sphery-bodied, monster throng [of phantoms]! |